Pith Number

pith:YNVAIZKQ

pith:2024:YNVAIZKQTMUNCFBI3RPRPDUSXI

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A Simpler Alternative to Variational Regularized Counterfactual Risk Minimization

Harrie Oosterhuis, Hua Chang Bakker, Shashank Gupta

arxiv:2409.09819 v2 · 2024-09-15 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YNVAIZKQTMUNCFBI3RPRPDUSXI}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T09:20:02.765774Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c36a0465509b28d11428dc5f178e92ba19122670978a3edb53478bd424153f5b

Aliases

arxiv: 2409.09819 · arxiv_version: 2409.09819v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.09819 · pith_short_12: YNVAIZKQTMUN · pith_short_16: YNVAIZKQTMUNCFBI · pith_short_8: YNVAIZKQ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YNVAIZKQTMUNCFBI3RPRPDUSXI \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: c36a0465509b28d11428dc5f178e92ba19122670978a3edb53478bd424153f5b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7241f3c1badf9530171f9f674afab4fb9fa4a58af2247e3b27d3c762679325cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2024-09-15T18:39:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12032393abede4d2c8dcb085182c15ca8765c9d4cfd01c74c1d9794982b94477"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2409.09819",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}